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A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama -- .

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The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium signalled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both femininity and masculinity. This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples from popular tabloids to campus culture to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic.

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The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium signalled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both femininity and masculinity.This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples from popular tabloids to campus culture to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic.

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Presents an international overview of how pornography - from soft core to hard core, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates through our media. Exploring music videos, alt porn sites, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, and more, this work analyses the transformation of porn in media and its impact on our culture.

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Presents an international overview of how pornography - from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates and proliferates through our media. Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, this work analyses the transformation of porn in media and its impact on our culture.

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More than just food carts and microbrews, Portland has a story to tell. Its culinary history sings the song of the salmon-people, the pioneers and immigrants, each struggling to make this strange but inviting land between the Pacific and the Cascades feel like home. Portland: ...

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This book examines how children and the concept of childhood are presented in media through the unique lens of childhood studies. This collection, authored by a cadre of international scholars, explores how children are represented, and how they represent themselves, in print, television, film, advertising, and emerging web technologies.

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Films depicting demoniacally possessed women who can only be saved by male religious figures through exorcism rituals have been produced and released around the world. This book considers the history of exorcism cinema and how such films reinforce or challenge the traditional exorcism narrative.

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Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge And who exactly were the post boys responsible for this This book traces the emergence and popularity of post-concepts through a wide range of genres and fields.

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The first book to consider the under-explored phenomenon of responses to the ending of fan objects.

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This text examines theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. Constructs discussed include: nation and modernity; third-world feminism; and identity politics.

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An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. -- .

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This volume examines the relationship between the development and functioning of television and concrete political and economic processes in the third world.

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A work of the author whose writings represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Based on a set of lectures, it also includes works such as "The Meaning of Truth", "Psychology", "The Will to Believe", and "Talks to Teachers on Psychology".

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This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity - a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfigure the effects of precarity. -- .

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By analyzing the history and current practice of two prewedding rituals commonly practiced by women in North-eastern Scotland, this book provides fresh insights into identity, gender, social class, contemporary attitudes to ritual, and what it means to approach marriage in the twenty first century.

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Reviews the historical development of press criticism since the 1880s in each of ten categories: muckrakers, journalism reviews, columnists and authors, television press critics, press councils, advocacy groups, scholars, ombudsmen, bloggers, and satirists. This book also provides nine case studies of press criticism campaigns.

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Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years.

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Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years.

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Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms examines the changing nature of privacy and exposure with regard to online perceptions, expectations, and behavior. Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur incorporate case studies to illustrate the various ways that ...

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This book examines the changing nature of privacy and exposure with regard to online perceptions, expectations, and behavior. Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur incorporate case studies to illustrate the various ways that individuals negotiate the boundaries between their private and public selves across different media platforms.

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This book explores the role of student media in private K12 schools in the United States. It argues that student media offers strong support to the mission-based private school experience and environment, and can be an asset toward preparing young people for lives of service and citizenship.

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Explores how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. This book provides a glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.

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A truly international, authoritative A-Z guide to five centuries of propaganda, in both wartime and peacetime, which covers key moments, techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history.